Internet of underwater things and big marine data analytics—a comprehensive survey

M Jahanbakht, W Xiang, L Hanzo… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is an emerging communication ecosystem
developed for connecting underwater objects in maritime and underwater environments …

Underwater image enhancement: a comprehensive review, recent trends, challenges and applications

S Raveendran, MD Patil, GK Birajdar - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021 - Springer
The mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems can be unlocked to reveal new sources, for
developing medical drugs, food and energy resources, and products of renewable energy …

Underwater image enhancement via medium transmission-guided multi-color space embedding

C Li, S Anwar, J Hou, R Cong, C Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color casts and low contrast due to wavelength-and distance-
dependent attenuation and scattering. To solve these two degradation issues, we present an …

Bayesian retinex underwater image enhancement

P Zhuang, C Li, J Wu - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper develops a Bayesian retinex algorithm for enhancing single underwater image
with multiorder gradient priors of reflectance and illumination. First, a simple yet effective …

UIEC^ 2-Net: CNN-based underwater image enhancement using two color space

Y Wang, J Guo, H Gao, H Yue - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
Underwater image enhancement has attracted much attention due to the rise of marine
resource development in recent years. Benefit from the powerful representation capabilities …

A variational framework for underwater image dehazing and deblurring

J Xie, G Hou, G Wang, Z Pan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater captured images are usually degraded by low contrast, hazy, and blurry due to
absorbing and scattering, which limits their analyses and applications. To address these …

UW-GAN: Single-image depth estimation and image enhancement for underwater images

P Hambarde, S Murala, A Dhall - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the unavailability of large-scale underwater depth image datasets and ill-posed
problems, underwater single-image depth prediction is a challenging task. An unambiguous …

Enhancing underwater image via color correction and bi-interval contrast enhancement

W Zhang, L Dong, T Zhang, W Xu - Signal Processing: Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Underwater captured images often suffer from color cast and low visibility due to light is
scattered and absorbed while it traveling in water. In this paper, we proposed a novel …

GUDCP: Generalization of underwater dark channel prior for underwater image restoration

Z Liang, X Ding, Y Wang, X Yan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter introduces an underwater image enhancement method to handle low contrast and
color cast of underwater images. Firstly, with the help of hierarchical searching technique …

Comprehensive underwater object tracking benchmark dataset and underwater image enhancement with GAN

K Panetta, L Kezebou, V Oludare… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current state-of-the-art object tracking methods have largely benefited from the public
availability of numerous benchmark datasets. However, the focus has been on open-air …